Binary textiles

Sound Knitting

Knitted Spectrogramme

E textile Summercamp 2014

Workshop given with Maurin Donneaud

These last years hackers and makers have started to open up knitting machines and found new ways to hack them by allowing the machines to be controlled directly by a modern computer. These hacked knitting machines become a sort of textile printer. Having a direct communication between digital tools and the knitting machine pushes the boundaries of traditional knitted patterns and gives us the opportunity to think of new way’s in conceiving patterns .

In this workshop we will explore how our knitting machine can become a way of printing out generated data on a textile surface.First we will show how the monitoring system and the arduino controls the knitting machine as well as how the machine works in general.

We will then experiment hands on with field recordings and capture data of our surrounding environment. Our data cartography’s will then be translated and visualised with Pure Data or other sensors that you may wish to explore. This will be sent to the machine to be knitted out. These patterns can be read as a visual translation of rhythms, silences, movements and noises embedded in a palpable knitted surface. At the end of the workshop we would like to discuss the possibilities of other tools to experiment with different sensors and pattern visualisation which can be continued in the week.

-> For details on tools we will be using : https://github.com/MaurinElectroTextile/KnitHack_KH940

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Scanning and (re)listening to knitted spectrograms with EJTECH at etextile summercamp 2014

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